“O Café de Lenine”, Nuno Júdice's most recent soap opera, will be presented on Saturday, March 9th, at 18 pm, at the “Maria do Mar” tavern-store, in Portimão, with the presence of the author.
This is an initiative of the Ibero-Atlantic Culture Institute of Culture (ICIA) aimed, above all, at its members, who meet on the same day in a General Assembly.
The objective is “to provide a space for conviviality with meaning, in an environment of literary gatherings, transforming, in a late afternoon, the tavern-shop “Maria do Mar” in Portimão, in O Café de Lenine, in Bern”, he explains. João Ventura, President of the ICIA.
And it will be in this atmosphere of get-together that Nuno Júdice will talk about the creation of this telenovela and the current themes it convenes, while “some members of the ICIA will be confused with characters from this unprecedented telenovela that, crossing various eras and geographies, will seek characters to great literary classics, combining fiction, chronicle, diary, essay in a kind of stand up literary full of humour”.
It is, according to the ICIA, “an imagined book” where “anything is possible: an ecological solution to avoid the end of the paper press, the rehabilitation of cockroaches from a lunch with Arrabal, the descent to the last circle of the Hell in a Chilean copper mine, where Lucifer waits for a social reintegration subsidy, one night with Emma Bovary in a Luxembourg room, Rousseau pointed out as an example in a conversation between Guerra Junqueiro and Lenine in a Bern cafe, the fruitless search for combat in the field of Waterloo behind Fabrice del Dongo, fled from the Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal”.
Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve, in 1949. He has a degree in Romance Philology at the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon and a Doctorate in Comparative Romance Literatures at FCSH-UNL, where he was a professor from 1976 to 2015.
He has published 33 books on poetry, 14 on fiction, 10 on essays and 5 on theatre. His poetry was collected, in 1991, in the Poetic work (1972-1985), at Quetzal, and in 2001, in Poetry collected. 1967-2000, at Don Quixote.
It is translated into multiple languages. He is the director of Colóquio/Letras, of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Her work was widely awarded in Portugal and abroad, with the XXII Reina Sofía Prize for Iberoamericana Poetry being highlighted in 2013. In Mexico, he received, in 2014, the Latin World Poets Prize and, in 2017, the Juan Crisóstomo Doria Prize, awarded by the Autonomous University of Hidalgo.
Nuno Júdice is chairman of the Board of the Assembly of the Instituto de Cultura Ibero-Atlântica, a cultural association based in Portimão.
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